The best free disk imaging program: a comparative analysis (updated)
What is the best way to safeguard your computer and undo a system disaster? Most would agree that is done best by making a ...
The best freeware file manager: a comparative analysis
File management in Windows (browsing, viewing, copying, deleting files etc) is an area where Windows Explorer is not sufficient for many people.
Explorer lacks several...
How to download the Favicon from any site
Favicons are very small icons that typically display a site’s logo or brand. These are familiar to everyone who has every bookmarked a URL,...
Loomis Faceworx: model a 3D head from two 2D images
Looxis Faceworx is a free 3D modeling program that can construct a textured 3D model of a person’s head out of two 2D photos...
ICSI Netalyzr – Know your Connection
ICSI Netalyzr is a service maintained by the Networking Group at the International Computer Science Institute, an affiliate with the University of California, Berkeley ...
How to eject a USB drive when Windows doesn’t want to
Here’s a quick description of how you can use "Unlocker",one of my favorite freeware programs, in order to safely remove a USB or external...
A comparison of FREE Cloud Storage Services
Now that the biggest tech companies in the world are taking aim at Dropbox (with Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon all offering their own cloud...
Add thumbnail previews to PDF files in Windows with PDF Preview
Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of the first things most people install on a computer, but one thing which I do not understand is...
Display your Kindle ebook covers as thumbnails in Windows with Mobihandler
I recently wrote about a software that displays image thumbnails rather than icons for all manner of common and obscure image files (here). If...
Zip2Fix: extract undamaged files from a corrupt ZIP archive
I’ve been waiting to test a couple of freeware ZIP archive recovery apps for some time.
And then, it finally happened (oh joy); I downloaded...
SingleInstance: allow only one running instance of a program
Have you ever launched a program and started working with it only to discover that there’s another instance of it running in the background?...
For those who come here for awesome freeware: check out NANY 2014
Every year the community of coders at DonationCoder come up with brand new freeware tools for a year-end event they call New Apps for...